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Third Rock Ventures recently unveiled a $378 million life sciences fund which it says will concentrate on early-stage drug discovery--linking academic research to biotech companies. In an interview Read more...

Researchers at MIT have developed a computer model which they say can rev up the effectiveness of an antibody-based therapy. And it's not just a theory. They say that they have used the model to Read more...

The Israeli Life Sciences Industry group is helping set up a $300 million to $500 million initiative to spur the development of biotechnology and help finance drug research in the country. Chief Scientist Dr. Eli Opper says that the country is already in negotiations with multinational biotech companies to create development centers in Israel while the government is adding to the biotech/nanotech activities of Israel's universities. Care Capital partner Dr. Argeris N. Karabelas told the …

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A worldwide analysis of biotech patents shows that universities and public research institutions play the leading role in drug discovery, with the U.S. and Japan well ahead of Europe in innovation. The intellectual property firm Marks & Clerk examined patents filed between 2002 and 2006 and found that the Japan Science and Technology Agency played the lead role in filing 1,022 patent "families;" clusters of patents all linked to a single discovery. The University of California ranked …

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A group of three universities has banded together to create a research grid that will allow cardiovascular researchers to share data, analytical tools and models on healthy and diseased patients. The Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins University will host the grid--which is being funded with an $8.5 million federal grant--and work with Ohio State University and the University of information that can be shared by everyone who is connected. And that's a big advance from …

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